St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-17
COSTLY POSIES.
what Fashionable 6eOPle Pay for
Choice Flowers.

Duriug the fashionable social season more
money is spent for cut flowers in this city
than for Jewels, says the New York Mail.
Since the English fashion of plant decora-
ton has become so popular in America inn
mense amounts are every season expended
for the loan of foliage specimens. The
moving of plants in frosty weather is at
tended with great risk and the exposure to
gaslight and the joStle of throngS do fur
fher damage. Most florists who have large
and costly collections reserve one green
house tor a hospital, where plants damaged
when loaned are placed for recuperatiOn.
For decorating drawing rooms when
wedding is to take place. from $500 to
81, 900 gives a handsome distribution OF
choice plants and flowers. An Eastertide
wedding will occur where wide bay Win
dow is to be made into grotto and filled
with blooming plants. There will be
profusion of hybrid roses on the mantels.
under the mirrors, in corner vases and fire.
places. The decoration will cost $780,
Hybrid roses, such as BaronesSe de Roths-
child, Mabel Morrison and the like, cost
from 81 to $1.50 each. The new Puritan
rose, not so large, but Of exquisite beauty
and preserving its perfection week, is sold
for 81. Selected jacqueminots and Mare
DIES Jardins are from 80 to 40 cents. The
yosiest of all roses. La France. in color and
perfume, brings from SO cents to 81, &C
Iording to size.
A society leader, who is about giving to-
iay the sixth of her Saturday dinner parties,
has partiality for the Annie de Diesba CHI
,ose. which has been dubbed Gloire de Paris
sy a florist Twelve dozen of these roses
ire arranged in silver vases on her table.
They cost 81 each, and besides this the
taste in arrangement must be considered in
The bill. Dinner decorations cost from S25,
which pays for pretty centerpiece of tulips
Oh dubious bloom, to $500. An orchid table
establishment. when satin cover is fur
nished, is worth $500. Orchid flowers bring
from SO cents to $1.50 each, and sprays
cost from So to S.. An orchid wedding
bunch is not made up for less than $50.
Wedding bouquets of bride roses and lilies
lre worthfrom SIS to S25.
The regular customers for cut flowers are
those who swell the revenue of the florists
There are families who have their box of
blossoms as regularly each morning as they
do their table supplies. A cluster of vio-
lets must be among the roses and spring
flowers at whatever cost. Boxes of cut
flowers cost from So to S.. This is the
favorite style of floral gift for flower lovers
have the double delight of arranging the
vases. A gentleman from California last
week ordered two days in succession 5000
worth of cut flowers to the house of the
friend he was visiting. that the ladies
might have the pleasure of distrib-
uting them to their taste through
out the apartments. German favors
are gotten up with considerable ex-
pense. SiXty-two cornucopias, costing $11
each, were the floral favors presented lately
ut Brooklyn cOtillion. The rose punches
given at balls and dances contain from six
TO dozen blossoms, which. if selected, are
worth from 40 to rs cents each. A fruit
set of Dresden china was mounted on pyr-
amid OF flowers, the piece costing $3.50, the
flowers being worth $3.50. A rose basket
sent to favorite actress very often brings
500. Baskets of fine flowers cost from $40
to $50, according to size and skill in ar
rangement Plants growing being intro
duced into the fashionable Easter basket
make them more costly. The deliberately
hzaided rush fish baskets yalanced with